We've been hard at work on Exchange 14 (E14) for a few years now, and although we've shared a lot of details and code with customers on our TAP & Live@edu programs, we haven't been too chatty publicl...
Updated Jul 01, 2019
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Thanks for the video. I would love to see more of E14.
You asked for some feedback so here are a few requests for future presentations:
- please improve the image capture. When showing screen shots or demos please don't use a camera that can barely see the screen.
- explain if the proliferation of required servers has changed. E2K3 was a front end and a back end. E2K7 was Edge, Hub, transport, mailbox, etc. what is the situation with E14?
- clustering and HA changes?
- Security delegation ...
[In a University it is more likely to have devolved admin structures, but not the one Microsoft assumes. We have 6 different groups who are responsible for their area's staff/user accounts/mailboxes/etc. The Infrastructure group delivers Exchange but doesn't manage the users.
E2K3 was simple; The admins had ADUC and rights over their users. All properties and management including Exchange was visible in the ADUC GUI. With E2K7 they need ADUC plus the Exchange console but the delegation model is all about splitting user management from mailbox management. I would think the more normal split model should be around "this group manages these users (all features) and this group manages these users (all features)"]
- backup and restores. I know this isn't strictly an Exchange issue but it is a day to day issue for most admins.
[One reason I'm asking is that I followed the "how does Microsoft IT do Exchange" Technet and video trail all the way to the Data Protection Manager 2007 and how to restore a single mailbox. Technet says the following "To recover a mailbox, DPM must copy the entire database because this is the recommended method that Exchange supports". Many 3rd party products allow the quick recovery of mailboxes or even single mail items, but apparently this is not supported. "Microsoft support policy for third-party products that modify or extract Exchange database contents" (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=96542).
So, what are the restore options supported with E14? a whole separate blog on this topic would be great.
Another issue with restores .. moving mailboxes around seem to be the norm for many Microsoft how-to's etc. This really messes with the restore process, as in "OK, we need to restore this mailbox from 12 months ago .. what store was it on back then?". Any changes in thoughts on that?]
- Performance improvements.
- OWA improvement for non-IE users
Thanks. Sorry for the long post. Love the products and this blog!
Cheers
Kevin
You asked for some feedback so here are a few requests for future presentations:
- please improve the image capture. When showing screen shots or demos please don't use a camera that can barely see the screen.
- explain if the proliferation of required servers has changed. E2K3 was a front end and a back end. E2K7 was Edge, Hub, transport, mailbox, etc. what is the situation with E14?
- clustering and HA changes?
- Security delegation ...
[In a University it is more likely to have devolved admin structures, but not the one Microsoft assumes. We have 6 different groups who are responsible for their area's staff/user accounts/mailboxes/etc. The Infrastructure group delivers Exchange but doesn't manage the users.
E2K3 was simple; The admins had ADUC and rights over their users. All properties and management including Exchange was visible in the ADUC GUI. With E2K7 they need ADUC plus the Exchange console but the delegation model is all about splitting user management from mailbox management. I would think the more normal split model should be around "this group manages these users (all features) and this group manages these users (all features)"]
- backup and restores. I know this isn't strictly an Exchange issue but it is a day to day issue for most admins.
[One reason I'm asking is that I followed the "how does Microsoft IT do Exchange" Technet and video trail all the way to the Data Protection Manager 2007 and how to restore a single mailbox. Technet says the following "To recover a mailbox, DPM must copy the entire database because this is the recommended method that Exchange supports". Many 3rd party products allow the quick recovery of mailboxes or even single mail items, but apparently this is not supported. "Microsoft support policy for third-party products that modify or extract Exchange database contents" (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=96542).
So, what are the restore options supported with E14? a whole separate blog on this topic would be great.
Another issue with restores .. moving mailboxes around seem to be the norm for many Microsoft how-to's etc. This really messes with the restore process, as in "OK, we need to restore this mailbox from 12 months ago .. what store was it on back then?". Any changes in thoughts on that?]
- Performance improvements.
- OWA improvement for non-IE users
Thanks. Sorry for the long post. Love the products and this blog!
Cheers
Kevin